"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum."

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."

"You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?"

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."